All Things Stockport County

      County stormed into the 3 rd round of the FA Cup at a wintry Edgeley Park last night, making light of going behind early on to a freak goal brushing Charlton Athletic`s challenge aside impressively in a flurry of goals all scored by hat-trick hero Will Collar! This was a win that was thoroughly deserved and must have had the stay-at-home TV audience wondering why they had wasted so much of their time recently watching an inferior product from somewhere in the desert when stuff of this quality was available in SK3! Collar was excellent and the only answer to his power and skill that the Addicks could come up with, was to foul him, and others most notably Hippolyte and Southam -Hales but by no means exclusively.it must be said that faced with a monstrous multiplicity of rank bad fouls from Athletic Referee Scott Oldham was way short of being up to the job! Thankfully County knew what the occasion needed, and quite frankly whilst Anthony Hayes` side had bags o...

          Unlucky Hats   So you thought I’d hung up my hat(s) did you? I sort of had, but now I’m back, reborn, with a brand-new hat. Well, a brand-new old hat, if you follow me ( seen above kindly modelled by my cat Seafur).   You don’t? Let me explain.   As you know, the first thing Man-in-a-Hat does at the start of every season, is to reassess each of his hats, in order to establish how lucky each one is.   You’ll recall that this season didn’t start very well, and as a consequence, every hat was proven to be ineffective in helping the Boys in Blue.   By mid-October, the Posh Topper, Bert’s Bowler, the Faux Pork Pie and even the Collapsible Top Hat, had all proven to be unlucky.   To make matters worse, when I didn’t wear a hat, County always won, resulting in the grim prospect of having to go the whole season hat-less. This could have serious consequences such as a frost-bitten pate, not to mention cons...